Disclaimer: I do not own "Harry Potter," nor any of its characters, nor do I profit in any way from the use of said characters and situations in this writing.

Timeline: 2010-2011

Extra notes: The story is based on stuff that is happening to me in real life, with some spicing up.

Friends with benefits?

Chapter One: Luck

Beautiful days in Hogwarts, nothing new all this days have been beautiful. Every day I wake up and I feel like I just drank a full cauldron of Felix Felicis. It' unexplainable, things that you would least expect to happen, just happen.

My name is Zack and I'm a 5th year in Hogwarts and ever since I was young I've been friends with a neighbor of mine called Katy. We both knew we were different but I was a muggleborn, unlike her. She is a pure-blood and her family is one with a blotchy past, in short, if her family knew me, they'd probably kill me. But that didn't stop me I always tried to hang out with her exchanging new magic we had learned on our own. It was one faithful day that she told me about Hogwarts (I was around ten when this happened). I didn't know anything about it, but she told me a few things. There are four houses and she wanted to go to Slytherin.

A year later I watched her get sorted into Slytherin, from the Hufflepuff table. She made a lot of fun of me for this but I always pulled through and retorted with snappy remarks like: "Hufflepuffs are great finders!" We still saw each other but it just seemed to be getting colder and colder as she grew more into a "Slytherin".

I became depressed and extremely sad during my 2nd, 3rd and 4th year, I did a great job in hiding it though. But during the summer while I was sitting in the park something came up to me and laid its head on my shoulder, I was surprised because nobody else came here. When I looked, there was Katy and she said to me in a low voice: "I'm sorry for forgetting who my real friends are" and gave me a kiss in the cheeks and one in the lips. I was so surprised, but that became the best day of my life, as we stayed hand in hand passing the day, with years of repressed feelings exploding out. That day seems so far away... I still remember the indistinct screams of her parents as they chased me down the road trying to curse me, but I just ran and ran and I knew not one of those spells would hit me.

So it is that during my 5th year I've become more confident of myself and well…happy. I met secretly with Katy during the whole year, as the relationship would be looked down upon by the whole school. Even though we were keeping it down, recently she has been held up a lot by her friends because they think she might be doing something horrible like meeting a "dumb Hufflepuff" in secret, they said it jokingly but we still started to get scared.

And so here I am, alone, in beautiful day at Hogwarts and I'm just taking in the sun by the lake. Nobody is around, they're all studying inside, it is extremely peaceful but I still missed Katy. After a while, I just wanted to get into the water to forget my troubles, I noticed I had no underwear (sure wish I had payed attention in transfiguration). As I took off my shirt, I remembered I wasn't exactly fit, but as I looked down, I was surprised to see a nicely formed body. As I got into the water I saw the giant squid swimming on the other end, so I decided to go and swim around with it. I must have been hours in there, but before I knew it, night had fallen and I was behind on homework as I swam to the shore were I left my clothes, I see from a distance that there's nothing there. First I thought someone had taken them as a prank but I saw right next to it some girl's underwear. I became flustered thinking someone was watching me nude in the water; I looked around a bit and saw someone swimming towards me. I couldn't believe my eyes, it was Katy looking as beautiful as ever. She swam up to me and said in a gentle voice: "I've missed you" as she said this she wrapped her legs around my waist and kissed me with so much passion that she took all my breath away. I couldn't help but notice that we were both naked and I had grown very stiff. She whispered with a raised eyebrow: "Problems?" I couldn't help but laugh as I kissed her with all I had and as I did my hands slid down her back to her hips, as I did I apologized it wasn't normal for me to lose composure like that but she said with a slight shudder in her voice: "It's okay" and with a thirst I couldn't explain I grabbed her ass. At my touch she let out a small squeal, as she did I kissed her while I rubbed against her. Before I knew it my hand was sliding up and down her body. Moaning and kissing me she slid her hand down my chest to my stiffness. At her cold touch I left out a slight shudder of pleasure, at my reaction she kissed and rubbed me with even more passion. I couldn't take it I was bursting with pleasure and I started to go down on her as my finger rubbed her cunt she moaned loudly, I whispered: "Do you want to wake the whole castle up?" She laughed but as she did I rubbed hard against her making her stop dead in her laugh and let out a moan of ecstassy. We were there for hours just kissing and rubbing against each other, I was happy, I think that might have been love.

After what seem like ages, I grabbed her hand and headed out of the lake. She gave my clothes, we dressed up in silence, no doubt saving what just happened to our minds forever. As she grabbed my hand and walked me up the castle, as my head was racing, thinking about what just happened, I realized that it was probably VERY LATE and there is a FUCKING GIANT SQUID IN THE LAKE… I bet he was very uncomfortable….but there was nothing I could do…

As we walked up to the school with gigantic grins in our faces we noticed that the castle doors were open, which was strange. When we entered we were greeted by a bunch of Slytherins and bright lights. I was hit with a curse and suddenly became dizzy and my perception was distorted, the light hitting my pupils and the screams made my head pound horribly. I heard screams about how I had put an imperious charm on Katy. They rushed and ripped Katy from my arms, as they did they were very aggressive and started hurting her, I lost it. I had no wand with me, I just ran in and with all I had hit everything I could but I was alone and took many blows, Katy was crying silently and pleading with her friends to stop. After a while they grabbed me by my back and started letting loose on my body, I felt blows to my face, my ribs, my arms.

All this fighting, of course, caused a commotion and before we knew it three teachers were surrounding us asking: "What is the meaning of this". A young Slytherin manned up and walked up and said: "We were just here getting some food from the kitchens". The teacher replied: "The kitchen is not in the entrance of the castle young man, so if you wish to stay in this school I suggest you start telling the truth". During this little distraction I took a wand from the nearest pocket and went around the teachers. I didn't think, just acted, I stunned the three as fast as I could.

The Slytherins were very surprised (I was mostly a bookworm) after they were on the floor I performed a memory charm on all of them. Katy ran out from the group of Slytherins and kissed me saying something about bravery, but I was surprised to see the Slytherins grinning, even happy? I was confused so I asked what was up and they just said: "What you just did was bad-ass, I guess we misjudged you". "Could the day get any better?" I thought. I performed a hovering charm on the teachers and took them to the teacher's lounge accompanied by a surprisingly cheery and happy crowd of Slytherins. I placed the teachers all in chairs and went down with the Slytherins to their common room. At the door I said goodbye to Katy and turned to leave but was stopped by some of the Slytherins. They told me: "You're cool, we like you, and we like that you make our Katy happy, we don't mind having you around". I thanked them from my heart, they truly weren't so bad. I returned to my common room with no trouble at all and fell asleep almost as soon as I touched the bed.

When I woke up I remember all the unfinished homework and some crazy night, which had to be a dream. After a bit more thinking it all cleared up and a grin spread through my face. I dressed up and ran down to the Great Hall. As I came in I looked at the Hufflepuff and at the Slytherin table. I don't know what made me do it but I just walked towards the Slytherin table, what was even more incredible they all were laughing and scooting to make space for me. I noticed every eye was on us, uproar started, screams about betrayal and some crap like that but I couldn't care less I was pretty much ignoring it all. After about thirty seconds of screaming, Headmaster Aberforth stood up and let out a bang from his wand, and said in a loud voice: "What this young wizard has done is not betrayal or any of the sorts, he has done what was meant to be done since the beginning of Hogwarts to educate wizards and create bonds. During the years rifts have broken out within the four great houses but this young man ignores those and does what is meant to be done." After his speech silence broke out and scraping of wood with marble could be heard, people were standing up and getting together. From the corner of my eye, I swore I saw Aberforth with a giant grin and a tear in his eye, it might have been my imagination but it looked like he was mouthing: "Brother, your dream has come true, I hope you're proud of me".